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William Kirby

"Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war."

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"Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war."

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Akshay Vasu

"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

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Akshay Vasu

"The only defensible war is a war of defense."

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Akshay Vasu

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

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Akshay Vasu

"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

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Akshay Vasu

"In a war, the first casualty is human dignity."

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Akshay Vasu

"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

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Akshay Vasu

"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."

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Akshay Vasu

"All quiet along the Potomac."

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Akshay Vasu

"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."

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Akshay Vasu

"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

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William Kirby
"The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting."

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William Kirby
"Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia."

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William Kirby
"East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century."

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William Kirby
"A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations."

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William Kirby
"Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war."

War

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William Kirby
"The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully."

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William Kirby
"I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia."

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William Kirby
"You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime."

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William Kirby
"I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard."

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William Kirby
"Taiwan is a major economy."

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